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In 2015, two teenagers - Vicky Balch, then 19, and Leah Washington, then 17 - each lost a leg in the collision in June2015 which “changed the lives of some of those injured in the most dramatic way”, according to a judge.

Stafford Crown Court heard that the victims had watched with “disbelief and horror” before ploughing into an empty carriage on the track, with the impact likened by the prosecution to a 90mph car crash.